Flatter Quotes
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Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
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Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
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We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler
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It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.
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A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.
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People generally despise where they flatter.
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And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter.
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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
